NEW DELHI: Voters in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh have rejected India's governing Hindu nationalist party, giving the opposition Congress party a two-thirds majority in the state legislature, according to election results announced yesterday.
Congress won 40 of the 65 seats while the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, which pushed its Hindu nationalist agenda during the race, won only 17 seats. Independents and smaller parties won eight seats.
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